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villian is playing 36/36/67 over 88 hands, my main beef is i dont think top pair is ever best here but this player is very aggro so do his stats change the way i play it? pokerstove is 77%

SB: $36.15
BB: $17.29
UTG: $82.88
MP: $10.55
Hero (CO): $25.00
BTN: $8.91

Pre Flop: ($0.35) Hero is CO with A Q
UTG raises to $0.62, 1 fold, Hero raises to $1.50, 1 fold, SB raises to $5, 2 folds, Hero calls $3.50

Flop: ($10.87) T 2 A (2 players)
SB bets $8.25, Hero calls $8.25

Turn: ($27.37) J (2 players)
SB bets $18.29
Hero?

Are they aggro pre then giving up a lot pf or attacking a lot, what has villain shown down recently?
4b stat? 3b stat?

Not much you're beating other than a pure bluff. His sizing is telling, I'm curious how he's sized in the prior 88 hands.

I'd turbofold this preflop. Guy effectively cold 4-bets vs an UTG open. Now the open and your 3-bet are very small (3bet should def. be bigger). Still, it's a cold 4bet and very few people at 25NL do this with anything but a value-range, against which AQ is not doing great and without the initiative you won't win the pot often if you miss.

As a general rule, if you put so much of your stack in preflop with a broadway, it's because you intend to stack off when you hit TP. If you don't feel comfortable stacking off here, pre is almost certainly a fold

I'm folding preflop too. But am i only concerned about hero's 3bet sizing here?

You are now way behind AA, AK, AJ, AT, JJ and TT. The only hands he may have 4bet that you are ahead of are KK and QQ and after you call his flop bet he is not putting in anything more in this pot.
For me as played you have to let this go now.

3Bet bigger, fold to the 4bet IMO.

3 bet bigger if you are going to 3 bet preflop (call might be better, you gave no reads/stats on UTG). Definitely fold to the 4 bet.

In general I don't think it's a good idea to 3 bet with AQ from an UTG raise. Decent players have a much tighter range when raising from UTG. Also that psyco behind you doesn't help matters. However, if he likes to squeeze then flat calling with KK, AA and stacking him would be the right play. In this situation depending on how big of a maniac this person is, flat calling or folding I think would be correct.

Decent players have a much tighter range when raising from UTG

their range is the biggest concern, not their position. the next most important is how they'll play that range